Tuscumbia News

Two Shoals men pleaded guilty in a Huntsville federal court Friday. Officials said 33-year-old Cederick "Big Ced" Carroll of Tuscumbia and 43-year-old Napoleon Ingram of Muscle Shoals pled guilty in a An armed robbery left three people at large after a dramatic showdown with the Hillsboro police chief.

Two Colbert County men, labeled by police as having a major part in the area's illegal drug trafficking, pleaded guilty in federal court Friday, authorities said.

The Helen Keller Art Show, a traveling exhibit of works by sensory-impaired students across the state, ends its 2011 tour at the Tennessee Valley Museum of Art in Tuscumbia in conjunction with the Helen Keller Festival of the Arts.

About the same time TVA held a workshop with Native Americans on how best to protect artifacts and remains on TVA land, four Alabama men were fined in federal court for disturbing Native American remains on TVA property.

Colbert County authorizes say they cracked a methamphetamine manufacturing case when they found portions of some mail thrown out with leftovers from the meth lab.

The U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration ordered Alabama-based BM&L Trucking, LLC, affiliated company IDM Transportation, Inc.

A Tennessee Valley Authority investigation has resulted in fines for four Alabama men for theft of cultural artifacts, according to a story at the Chattanoogan.com . Roger Fountain and Heath Dubois, both of Tuscumbia, and John Bates of Florence, each pleaded guilty to misdemeanor violations of the Archaeological Resource Protection Act.

TUSCUMBIA, Ala. - "A famous Canadian photographer came and took her picture." A tour guide shows Ivy Green to visitors fasinated by Helen Keller.

The financially troubled Alabama Music Hall of Fame, located on Highway 72 in Tuscumbia, is getting a helping hand from a local community college.

The U.S. Postal Service backed off a previous plan to close 13,000 rural post offices.

A new superintendent has been named to the post in the Tuscumbia City School System, and it's a familiar face who says she will provide a new vision for the school system.